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Journal Junction for February 26

February 26, 2013

Editor's note: Journal Junction offers the public a forum to applaud successes, discuss issues, point out problems and review the events of the day in a constructive manner. Journal Junction comments should be limited to two to four sentences and be no longer than 80 words. Longer comments should be submitted as "Letters to the Editor,"?which is a separate forum. The Journal's classified ads section offers help to those with lost or found items. This is a sampling of comments received today. Any others, subject to editing, are published in the online Journal Junction at www.journal-news.net under opinions.

From Falling Waters:

Although I enjoyed Dr. Bennett's article on George Washington in last Friday's paper, I must point out that Washington was known for his boat trip across the Delaware, not the Potomac. Also, she made absolutely no mention of his numerous slave holdings.

From Berkeley County:

Yes, you can blame a Republican for our high gas prices. Yes, President Lincoln's signature split Virginia. So we have reaped the results since 1863.

From Martinsburg:

Concerning Tiger Woods and Obama being friends: What's the difference? A lot of our top officials were friends with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. So what's the difference in friendship between Tiger Woods and Obama? There is no difference. Friends are friends.

From Martinsburg:

I want to thank those young people, and praise God for them, that stood up for the rights of having prayer in the Square. We need more people like that. We need people like that to run our nation and we would be much better off. God bless you, young people, and the minister as well! Thank you.

From Martinsburg:

Sequestration is yet another crisis contrived by Obama to obscure our real problems. There will be no solutions. There will be no layoffs, but we will be encouraged to bow the knee and kiss the ring of the king.

From Martinsburg:

To the person complaining about NASCAR racing, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Some people do like it. I think it's one of the best sports to watch.

From Charles Town:

When is that rat trap of a house going to be cleared away on South George Street? The one with all the old cars surrounding it? It looks like a junkyard for auto parts. I am surprised the city allows this. It would make a great parking lot for working people in town, not for car storage. Please bulldoze it, clean it up and put it to use for the residents of Charles Town. Thanks a lot.

From Inwood:

Isn't it amazing that in just four years the public has been conditioned to accept $4 gasoline instead of $2 as "normal."

From Martinsburg:

In reading the recent articles in The Journal in reference to the Jefferson Commission appointing a new sheriff. The office of sheriff under the state code: No. 1, serves the courts; No. 2, collects taxes and No. 3, heads county law enforcement. One duty shall not be more important than the other. I would ask the voters of Jefferson County to ask one question: Will this appointee have any prior law enforcement knowledge, training, etc.?

From Martinsburg:

Robert Reich, the so-called "economist" of Keynesian stripe, said "Minimum wage is a no-brainer." He's right. No one with brains would suggest it. Many decades of experience have shown that minimum wage eliminates thousands of low-skilled workers from payrolls. No one should expect "burger-flippers" to support a family of four on minimum wage. When minimum wage is abolished, hundreds of thousands of willing teens and others of low skill will have work.

From Berkeley Springs:

Instead of legislators passing a minimum wage act, they should make legislation favorable to making money so that the job market tightens up and businesses have to pay more to get help and still more to get good help. Every country has had its power backed by a great economy. We are following the socialist Pied Piper into being and having less, not more.